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Internists join in brief urging supreme court to uphold ACA's premium subsidiesThe American College of Physicians (ACP) today - along with other health care organizations - submitted an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in the King v. Burwell case, urging the court to uphold the premium subsidies created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in all states.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-01-internists-urging-supreme-court-aca.html
HealthThu, 29 Jan 2015 12:08:48 ESTnews341755653Guidance offered for ethical referrals within ACOs(HealthDay)—For accountable care organizations (ACOs), referrals within the ACO can be ethical as long as their selection is influenced in a manner that is transparent, with appropriate metrics and the right incentives, according to a perspective piece published in the Jan. 15 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-01-guidance-ethical-referrals-acos.html
HealthThu, 15 Jan 2015 05:50:01 ESTnews340521893Article highlights top technology challenges for 2015(HealthDay)—The introduction of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) audits, meaningful use 2, and the burdens of technology are the top four technological challenges for physicians in 2015, according to an article published in Medical Economics.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-01-article-highlights-technology.html
HealthWed, 07 Jan 2015 13:50:01 ESTnews339859565The pill remains most common method of birth control, US report shows(HealthDay)—The pill remains one of the most popular methods of birth control for women, along with female sterilization and condoms, a new report shows.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-12-pill-common-method-birth.html
HealthThu, 11 Dec 2014 16:00:03 ESTnews337532456Health care organizations see value of telemedicine(HealthDay)—Health care organizations are developing and implementing telemedicine programs, although many have yet to receive reimbursement, according to a report published by Foley & Lardner.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-health-telemedicine.html
HealthThu, 27 Nov 2014 13:10:01 ESTnews336314206Study examines effect of hospital switch to for-profit statusHospital conversion from nonprofit to for-profit status in the 2000s was associated with better subsequent financial health but had no relationship to the quality of care delivered, mortality rates, or the proportion of poor or minority patients receiving care, according to a study in the October 22/29 issue of JAMA.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-effect-hospital-for-profit-status.html
HealthTue, 21 Oct 2014 16:00:02 ESTnews333124371Increased adoption of complex care management can help meet cost savings, quality goalsThe care of patients with complex medical needs is widely regarded as one of the key factors driving increased U.S. health costs, and it is generally accepted that 10 to 15 percent of Medicare patients account for 65 to 75 percent of all Medicare spending. Many of the country's leading health care organizations have been adopting the strategy of complex care management – assembling multidisciplinary teams of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, mental health professionals and others, with services being coordinated by care managers who work closely with patients and their family members.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-08-complex-quality-goals.html
HealthThu, 07 Aug 2014 09:03:09 ESTnews326620977Study shows health policy researchers lack confidence in social media for communicationThough Twitter boats 645 million users across the world, only 14 percent of health policy researchers reported using Twitter – and approximately 20 percent used blogs and Facebook – to communicate their research findings over the past year, according to a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In contrast, sixty-five percent used traditional media channels, such as press releases or media interviews. While participants believed that social media can be an effective way to communicate research findings, many lacked the confidence to use it and felt their academic peers and institutions did not value it or respect it as much as traditional media and direct contact with policy makers. However, the authors note that when used effectively, social media channels could present a major opportunity for connecting with both policy makers and the general public. Full results of the study, one of the first of its kind, are published online today in the journal Health Affairs, and will be presented as a plenary session during this weekend's annual AcademyHealth conference in San Diego, CA.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-06-health-policy-lack-confidence-social.html
HealthFri, 06 Jun 2014 13:43:00 ESTnews321280948Experts say 'insourcing' innovation may be the best approach to transforming health careA group of health care and policy experts from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is urging health care institutions to look more to their own in-house personnel, including physicians and nurses, as a source of new ideas for improving how care is delivered. The practice – referred to as insourcing – relies on an organization's existing staff to drive needed transformations. The team also suggests a four-stage design process which, when adopted internally, may help organizations implement more efficient health care delivery solutions.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-05-experts-insourcing-approach-health.html
HealthWed, 07 May 2014 17:00:04 ESTnews318692936Electronic tool helps reduce drug errors among hospitalized childrenWhen children are admitted to the hospital, sometimes the medications they take at home are lost in the shuffle, or they may be given the wrong dose.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-05-electronic-tool-drug-errors-hospitalized.html
PediatricsMon, 05 May 2014 04:13:12 ESTnews318481970Repeat data breaches among health care orgs down(HealthDay)—Most health care organizations report having at least one recent data breach, but the number of organizations with more than five breaches has decreased, according to an article published April 8 in Medical Economics.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-05-breaches-health-orgs.html
HealthSun, 04 May 2014 15:10:01 ESTnews318432869High-risk seniors surgery decisions should be patient-centered, physician ledSurgery for frail, senior citizen patients can be risky. A new patient-centered, team-based approach to deciding whether these high-risk patients will benefit from surgery is championed in an April 10 Perspective of the New England Journal of Medicine. The Perspective suggests that the decision to have surgery must balance the advantages and disadvantages of surgical and non-surgical treatment as well as the patient's values and goals in a team-based setting that includes the patient, his or her family, the surgeon, the primary care physician and the physician anesthesiologist.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-high-risk-seniors-surgery-decisions-patient-centered.html
SurgeryThu, 10 Apr 2014 13:20:07 ESTnews316354751Information technologies could remove the 'shroud of secrecy' draped across private health care costThe "shroud of secrecy" once draped across private health care service costs could be lifted with innovative information technologies, Princeton University professor Uwe Reinhardt wrote in a review published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-12-technologies-shroud-secrecy-draped-private.html
HealthMon, 02 Dec 2013 13:35:10 ESTnews305213565Medical safety innovation gets a boost from systematic analysisIf all medical errors were counted together as a single cause, they would likely rank as the third leading cause of death in the United States. As health care personnel race to improve the quality of their care to save lives and prevent unneeded harm, a new study indicates there is more they can do to learn about what errors are occurring and why.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-07-medical-safety-boost-systematic-analysis.html
HealthMon, 08 Jul 2013 16:49:59 ESTnews292520987Guide issued for tying primary care to regional organizations(HealthDay)—The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has developed a new guide to help primary care practices to assess readiness for connecting electronic health records (EHRs) to regional health information organizations (RHIOs).http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-issued-tying-primary-regional.html
HealthMon, 24 Jun 2013 15:42:22 ESTnews291307334Study finds need for improvement on state health care price websites"With rising health care costs and 30 percent of privately insured adults enrolled in high-deductible health care plans, calls for greater health care price transparency are increasing. In response, health plans, consumer groups, and state governments are increasingly reporting health care prices. Despite recognition that price information must be relevant, accurate, and usable to improve the value of patients' out-of-pocket expenditures, and the potential for this reporting to affect health care organizations and prices, there are no data on what kind of price information is being reported," writes Jeffrey T. Kullgren, M.D., M.S., M.P.H., of the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Mich., and colleagues.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-state-health-price-websites.html
HealthTue, 18 Jun 2013 16:00:02 ESTnews290785564New blood-thinner measures may cut medication errorsBlood thinners are the preferred treatment option to prevent heart attacks, blood clots and stroke, but they are not without risk, and not just because of their side effects. These high-risk drugs, known as anticoagulants, account for nearly 7 percent of medication errors in hospitalized patients.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-blood-thinner-medication-errors.html
CardiologyWed, 22 May 2013 09:22:34 ESTnews288433347Hospital group says 'alarm fatigue' can be deadly(AP)—Constantly beeping alarms in hospitals are being linked to patient deaths and other dangers in a new alert from the Joint Commission.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-hospital-group-alarm-fatigue-deadly.html
HealthMon, 08 Apr 2013 13:11:08 ESTnews284645461Geographic value index may not produce efficient care(HealthDay)—A geographically based value index to set Medicare reimbursements may not take into account differences in health care decision-making by individual practitioners or organizations, according to an interim report released March 22 by the Institute of Medicine (IOM).http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-geographic-index-efficient.html
HealthThu, 04 Apr 2013 14:40:01 ESTnews284302548The road to systems medicineA large European consortium has joined forces in the Coordinating Action Systems Medicine – CASyM, supported by the FP7- Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission, to develop a road map outlining an integrative strategy for the implementation of systems medicine across Europe. This consortium combines extensive experience from its twenty-two partners, including research, higher education and health care organizations, SMEs and pharmaceutical companies, funding bodies as well as research clusters and project management agencies from France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-road-medicine.html
OtherWed, 19 Dec 2012 10:04:10 ESTnews275133844Current health costs pushing docs to make urgent choices(HealthDay)—The current growth in health care's share of the gross domestic product (GDP) and need to implement learning health systems is forcing physicians to make important choices, according to a perspective piece published online Dec. 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-current-health-docs-urgent-choices.html
HealthThu, 13 Dec 2012 11:20:01 ESTnews274618653Patients to be more involved in decision-making, report findsFor the purpose of improving patient safety, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a new management model based on customer needs. All the actors taking part in the organizational activity in social and health care organizations play a key role in safety management - including the patient. Both in Finland and abroad, there is a clear need for the systematic improvement of patient safety. Patient safety cannot be improved by simply making new rules. On the contrary, sometimes new rules could make the work of healthcare professionals more complicated and even reduce safety. A new kind of adaptive safety management is required. This new, customer-needs-based management model is already being used at Vaasa Central Hospital.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-patients-involved-decision-making.html
OtherThu, 29 Nov 2012 08:05:41 ESTnews273398704Transformation of health system needed to improve care and reduce costsAmerica's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. Inefficiencies, an overwhelming amount of data, and other economic and quality barriers hinder progress in improving health and threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness, the report says. However, the knowledge and tools exist to put the health system on the right course to achieve continuous improvement and better quality care at lower cost, added the committee that wrote the report.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-health.html
HealthThu, 06 Sep 2012 12:45:18 ESTnews266154310Computer-based screening program for partner violence does not significantly improve quality of lifeIn a study that included more than 2,700 women receiving care in primary care clinics, those who were screened for partner violence and received a partner violence resource list did not experience significant differences for several outcomes, including overall quality of life, general health, and recurrence of partner violence, compared to women who just received a partner violence resource list, according to a study in the August 15 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human rights.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-computer-based-screening-partner-violence-significantly.html
Psychology & PsychiatryTue, 14 Aug 2012 16:00:05 ESTnews264160875What you don't know can hurt you: Report addresses widespread gaps in health literacy, shows how to bridge themIs it possible for a health care system to redesign its services to better educate patients to deal with their immediate health issues and also become more savvy consumers of medicine in the long run?http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-dont-widespread-gaps-health-literacy.html
HealthFri, 03 Aug 2012 15:01:12 ESTnews263224853ACOs find risks, opportunities in quest for reduced costs, improved qualityMany health care systems across the US have declined to participate in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program, developed under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), to improve efficiency and quality of health care delivery. In a groundbreaking collection of commentaries in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, representatives of six leading health care organizations write about the challenges of reducing health care costs while improving health care quality. They further explain why they did or did not choose to participate in one of the two models now operational at CMS.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-hcos-opportunities-quest-quality.html
HealthThu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:02 ESTnews263057500System helps public health officials identify priorities to better allocate resourcesAs the United States grapples with health care reform, much attention has focused on the importance of preventative health care. Now, a researcher at the University of Missouri has developed a system that could help public health care organizations determine the best method of allocating resources by prioritizing health risk factors and conditions &#150; in some cases before these conditions become major health problems.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-health-priorities-allocate-resources.html
HealthMon, 30 Apr 2012 14:20:01 ESTnews255013632World Cancer Day points to preventionHealth care organizations from around the globe will come together on Saturday, Feb. 4 to promote cancer prevention as part of this year's World Cancer Day.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-world-cancer-day.html
CancerFri, 03 Feb 2012 12:39:47 ESTnews247495172Online guide helps health organizations adopt electronic health recordsA new online guide is available from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help hospitals and other health care organizations anticipate, avoid and address problems that can occur when adopting and using electronic health records.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-online-health-electronic.html
HealthWed, 14 Dec 2011 13:10:36 ESTnews243090629New project examines medical safety net for undocumented patientsThe Hastings Center is exploring the ethical challenges that clinicians and organizations face when providing medical care to undocumented immigrants in the United States. The project is supported by a grant from the Overbrook Foundation Domestic Human Rights Program.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-medical-safety-net-undocumented-patients.html
HealthTue, 11 Oct 2011 15:56:17 ESTnews237567165